– Proposition 6: Add the right to hunt fish and harvest wildlife to state constitution’s Bill of Rights, and

– Proposition 7: Add $2.5 billion a year to build roads, transferred from the state sales tax.

Lindell says the homestead exception has a good chance of passing. Dan Patrick has led the fight for some of these but as amendments, they’re written in “legalese” and not easy for most folks to parse, much less rally around.

“They just don’t lend themselves to a major statewide campaign,” he says. “We have a constitution that’s made to be amended.”

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